Personality characteristics of third decade female TMD patients was studied by means of SCL-90-R test.
112 TMD patients and 96 dental controls were subjected at the Department of Oral Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital.
All the patients were divided into 3 groups according to their pain profile namely, MPDS, ID with Pain and ID without Pain, and dental controls were divided into 2 groups manely, Dental Controls with Pain and Dental Controls without Pain for
comparison.
@ES The obtained results were as follows :
@EN 1. Mean T-scores of SCL-90-R primary scales and global indexes in the patient and control group were within normal range.
2. When compared between groups with pain, MPDS group were significantly higher in scales of SOM, 0-C, I-S, HOS and PHOB than ID with Pain group and in scales of SOM, I-S, DEP, HOS and PHOB than Dental Controls with Pain group.
3. When compared with ID and Control groups in same pain condition, there were no significant differences between ID with Pain group and Dental Controls with Pain group and between ID without Pain and Dental controls without Pain group
4. When compared between groups with pain and groups without pain, there were significant differences in scales of SOM between ID with Pain and ID without Pain group and in scales of SOM and O-C between Dental Controls with Pain and Dental
controls
without Pain group.
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